Netherlands
Christina Li is a Hong Kong-born curator and writer based in Amsterdam. She is co-curator of Sonsbeek 2026, Arnhem, and Artistic Director of Kim Association, Singapore, a transnational Asian contemporary art project space initiated by the Yenn and Alan Lo Foundation. She previously directed Spring Workshop, Hong Kong (2013–2017), and has held curatorial positions at Para Site (Hong Kong), SKOR (Amsterdam), and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht). Her curatorial work includes Pilvi Takala: Close Watch, Finnish Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale (2022); Hong Kong's presentation of Shirley Tse's work at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Xinyi Cheng: Seen Through Others, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2022); and Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time (2022), the second edition of the triennial video and performance art series in Bangkok. She guest-curated Ghost: Bodies Dispossessed within Ghost 2568 (2025). Further projects include exhibitions at EMMA, Helsinki; M+, Hong Kong; Z33, Hasselt; and A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam. Her writings have appeared in Artforum, ArtReview Asia, LEAP, Parkett, Spike, and Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. She teaches at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, as part of the BEAR programme. Working fluidly across Europe and Asia, Li is known for her transnational and discursive approach to exhibition-making, engaging questions of cultural translation, collective imagination, and experimental narrative structures.
Kim Association is a project space initiated by the Yenn and Alan Lo Foundation that experiments with how transnational Asian contemporary art can be commissioned, presented, and discussed. Situated in a shophouse in Singapore's River Valley District, it cultivates the exchange of ideas, objects, and cultural practices among those with roots in Asia — a platform for artists, curators, and publics to explore the diverse experiences of belonging and interconnectivity that shape our world. As Artistic Director, I develop and oversee the annual exhibition and public programme, working with artists whose practices move across national and cultural borders. Recent presentations and commissions include Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo): Revolt of the Body (October 2025) and Shuang Li: Alliance (Singapore Art Week 2026).
Teaching within the BEAR (Base for Experiment, Art and Research) programme at ArtEZ, contributing to critical and curatorial discourse in contemporary art education.
Sonsbeek is one of the oldest and most significant international public art exhibitions in the Netherlands, held in and around the city of Arnhem since 1949. The 13th edition of Sonsbeek, curated by Amira Gad and Christina Li with assistant curator Berber Meindertsma, opens 2 July 2026 under the title "Ik hoef geen tuin, ik deel een park" — a slogan by the Dutch collective Loesje. Running until October 11, the exhibition takes memory as its civic, political, and embodied framework, bringing together eighteen national and international artists and collectives, twelve of whom are developing new work. With site-specific installations, sculptures, and performances across Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem's city center, and venues including Museum Arnhem, Museum Bronbeek, Omstand, Rozet, and POST, the edition expands the visitor's experience of art in public space while activating, questioning, and reimagining what it means to remember collectively. As co-curator, I lead the artistic direction and development of the exhibition, artist commissions, and an accompanying public programme in Amsterdam (Hartwig Proxy) and Arnhem (various partners).
Writing reviews and long-form essays for exhibition catalogues, journals, magazines. Editing numerous publications on contemporary art, and fiction.
Within the third and final edition of the trilogy, Ghost 2568 (Bangkok, October–November 2025), curated by Amal Khalaf, Li guest-curated Ghost: Bodies Dispossessed — a sub-programme of new commissions by Orawan Arunrak, Raqs Media Collective, and Koki Tanaka around the question of what happens when a ghost ceases to be affixed to a body. Supported by Hartwig Art Foundation, these works will unfold at Hartwig Proxy, Amsterdam following their Bangkok presentations.